Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-19
SOME SUMNER SQUIBS.
What is Safe to Wear This Hot
Weather--safe Things TO Drink
TheFm Ometer Variations sun
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Weather--safe Things TO Drink
Therm ometer Variations - sun
strokes and the Proper Treatment.
HOW TO GET THROUGH SUMNER.
If you wish to get through the summer
all right. wear cabbage leaf in your hat,
keep your skin clean, beware of excsva-
lions that are likely to cave in, or of
holes that are likely to cave out, step over
every banana peel. turn out for an open
hatchway or cellar door, keep your hands
off the buzz saw, don't look down the
barrel to see whether the gun is loaded,
don't stand on the railroad track and wait
for the iron horse to breathe his breath on
you and knock the breath out of you,
don't GO swimming in water deeper than
six inches, don't eat ice cream every time
you are asked at church festival, guard
your appetite when green apples first
tempt you. never be so foolish as to hand
poem to the fighting editor. be careful
about the distance that intervenes be
tween any portion of your body and a
revolving cylinder of a threshing machine,
always avoid leading mule or circus
horse by the tail, retire early rise earlier
feed the mind good, intellectual food by
reading such journals as the ARGUS. and
thus secure the happiness that will attract
to you many friends.
SAFE SUMNER DRINKS
A glass of cool water. not Ice water, is
the most delicious. grateful and gratlfy-
ing beverage that person can take in
hot weather, besides costing nothing aud
leading to no bad habits Men in glass
factories, where the heat is fearful. drink
water only, not ICED, and are healthy and
vigorous. Field hands on cotton and SUI
gar plantations drink a mixture of mo-
lasses and water. A safe drink for har-
vesters is water in which oatmeal has
| been stirred In warm weather when
| there is excessive yermicular action of the
bowels, or looseness, as it is familiarly
called, every step person takes has a
tendency to set the bowels in motion. H.
stinct and common sense, therefore, die
| tate the most perfect rest. Drinking flu
ids sggrsvate the malady Lumps of ice
chewed and swallowed in as large Jumps
as possible will allay the excessive thirst
Parched rice boiled and eaten with boiled
milk is the best food. This treatment
will cure nine cases of ten if adopted
within forty >eight hours; if not call t
physician.
| THERMOMETERS
| Extremity of the weather always caus
es an interest in thermometers and thu
comparisons that result invariably show
a wide difference in the degree of hea
registered. Generally this is blamed Oh
the thermometer, which would CONF
nearer giving correct idea of the condi
ton of the atmosphere if properly
handled. For instance Sunday, man,
thermometers hung in the shade range,
from hundred to hundred and fou
degrees. The signal service, however
would probably have quoted the atmos
phere at about ninety-four 1t is an in
justice to the thermometer TO say it is il
the shade when it has been hung agains
a building over which there is au awning
and no correct test. except OF the heat il
that spot can be obtained To secure
correct test, the instrument should
hung in room or in the shade of th
building where no heat can be reflectet
to influence the mercury. If this plan
followed out it will be found that whel
the Thermometer is hundred degree
in the shade. The heat will be decided
more intense than Sunday. Probably
l phichCh IblS Cbhictr tHC
would not vary so much.
SUN STROKE.
A sudden prostration of the nervou
system resulting from extreme heat
commonly called sun stroke 1t is
mistake. however, 10 suppose that expos
ure to the suns rays is necessary to pro
duce this prostration. for workmen VIII
are exposed all day to the scorching su
do not have sun -stroke as often as pei
sons of sedentary habits who walk on II
shady side of the street.
The usual symptoms indicating an a
tack of sun stroke are a full, heavy fee
ing in the head, dizziness, ringing in Il
ears, derspged vision; faintness and DIFF
e cult breathing; but sometimes the pr
tent falls unconscious without any
these symptoms being present, and wit
out the slightest warning. In sever
cases death may ensue In a few hour
Those who recover from an attack do :
slowly. and continue 10 Ne greatly pro'
! tratcd fur some time after diZziuess Al
t faiDtness COMM. on after the slIghte
. mental. rtforl. while tue full, distresse
q feeling in the head continues for nontl
., afterwards.
Sunstroke is best avoided by imrned
ately ceasing all mental or physical effo
as soon as the first symptoms of prostr
f ton are felt and. above all. by ayoidir
s the drinking of ice water when owe
= heated. The head should be protected /
sunshsde, and care should be taken
! keep the digestive organs healthy by u
, ing light food When an attack occu
= the patient should be removed TO a co
place and placed in recumbent positio
K cold water or ice bags should be appli'
n to the head, and mustard paste. capsieu
or other stimulants to the extremities al
i over the stomach Hartshorn should